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Why the New York Times sued Microsoft and OpenAI

The Times case is in a different league than previous lawsuits against GPT-4.

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Dec 28, 2023
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On Wednesday, the New York Times filed a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of infringing copyright by training its large language models with Times content. The Times doesn’t just want money, it’s also demanding that OpenAI destroy GPT-4 and other models trained with copyrighted material.

OpenAI was already under significant pressure over copyright concerns. By fi…

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